Guidebooks

Tom Stienstra's comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date descriptions of pretty much every campground across the State of California--"never get stuck again!" Don't leave home without putting the latest edition in the glove box.

Handsome CD-ROM reproduction of Whitney's ultra-rare 1868 compendium—produced from the Bancroft Library copy—with high-resolution scans of many Carleton Watkins albumen prints, plus some of the earliest printed maps of the Valley and adjacent High Sierra.

First Edition: 1886. "Though he authored several works about the Yosemite region, this is Hutchings's most ambitious work, covering every aspect of Yosemite Valley and the big trees for the 19th century tourist more thoroughly than any other book of its time. It is an important primary source of information on the early human history of the region, and still considered authoritative on the early climbs in and exploration of the area."